The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is yet another must read for the true crime aficionado—an eye-opening compendium of the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant crime stories of the year by the masters of the genre. Guest editor Stephen J. Dubner ( Freakonomics) joins series editors Otto Penzler and Thomas Cook for the latest annual installment in what Entertainment Weekly has praised as the best mix of "the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant," and People Magazine calls, "arresting reading."

What Whoopi Goldberg ("Not a rape-rape"), Harvey Weinstein ("So-called crime"), et al. are saying in their outrage over the arrest of Raman Polanski ; At the train bridge / Calvin Trillin --
Smooth jailing / Rick Anderson --
What happenned to Etan Patz? / Lisa R. Cohen --
Sex. lies, & videotape / Kevin Gray --
Trial by fire / David Grann --
Flesh and blood / Pamela Colloff --
The celebrity defense / Jeffrey Toobin --
The chessboard killer / Peter Savodnik --
The great buffalo caper / Maximillian Potter --
The man who shot the man who shot Lincoln / Ernest B. Furgurson --
The boy who heard too much / David Kushner --
Bringing down the dogmen / Skip Hollandsworth --
Madoff and his models / Ron Chernow --
The sicario / Charles Bowden